In Croatia, his father threw four small children out of the window on the top floor of the house

A man on the Croatian island of Pag on Thursday threw four of his little ones out of the window on the top floor of their family home. Two children suffered serious injuries, the local police reported.

On Thursday morning, children of three, five, seventeen and eight fell from a height of about six feet. The two older brothers and sisters suffered more unspecified fractures and younger children had less serious injuries, AP press agency

. "Two seriously injured children are in a hospital at an intensive care unit, with injuries to two others not life-threatening," he said. Croatian press agency HINA doctor Zeljko Čulina

The police detained a 54-year-old father and tried to determine his state of mind.

The case shocked a small community of people on the island of Pag in the Adriatic, where about 8,000 residents live